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3-Way Loss on Jeopardy!

MarcB said:
Monday night there was a rare 3-way loss on Jeopardy!

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Hard to believe none of the contestants got that one right. The crisis at Central High School in Little Rock was one of the seminal events of the civil rights movement. You'd think one of the contestants would have associated 1957 with it, given the clues. I think the one who guessed "Atlanta" was on the right track, thinking it had something to do with Martin Luther King Jr. (and, by extension, President Carter), but Austin? Springf(ield)?
 
I was surprised,as well, Usually I can't answer 90 percent of the questions(answers)but this one seemed obvious. A Presidential Library and the year 1957 were very good clues pointing to Little Rock,and the category was State Capitols.Surprising nobody got it right.
 
The rule disqualifying all three players from returning is only little baffling. On Press Your Luck, if all three contestants ended with $0 at game's conclusion, all three would return on the next show, provided none of them had hit four Whammys. It happened at least once.
 
I lived through the Little Rock episode but given the clue probably would not have been able to answer it either. The reason? The clue gives equal weight to "1957" and to a presidential library. I'm not sure how many of you track the libraries but they are not much more than legacy monuments so I don't pay them any attention. 1957 could have referred to a number of important events as the 50's were a very active social and political decade.
 
landtuna said:
I lived through the Little Rock episode but given the clue probably would not have been able to answer it either. The reason? The clue gives equal weight to "1957" and to a presidential library. I'm not sure how many of you track the libraries but they are not much more than legacy monuments so I don't pay them any attention. 1957 could have referred to a number of important events as the 50's were a very active social and political decade.
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I was only 2 at the time the standoff at Central happened, but I lived in Arkansas for three years in the late '70s, working for a newspaper, and Central, Orval Faubus, etc., seemed to come up in news stories fairly often even then. Maybe if I had never lived in Arkansas I wouldn't have gotten the Jeopardy answer either.
 
benale said:
I was surprised,as well, Usually I can't answer 90 percent of the questions(answers)but this one seemed obvious. A Presidential Library and the year 1957 were very good clues pointing to Little Rock,and the category was State Capitols.Surprising nobody got it right.
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Ahhh, that explains the cities given in the wrong answers. Thanks. Still, I always thought Springfield's been a pretty quiet little burg since Honest Abe's days. What happened there in '57?
 
CTListener said:
Ahhh, that explains the cities given in the wrong answers. Thanks. Still, I always thought Springfield's been a pretty quiet little burg since Honest Abe's days. What happened there in '57?
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Wasn't Springfield (Illinois) Honest Abe's hometown? Is there another Springfield (Arkansas) with a similar reputation?

Kids today would probably associate Springfield with Homer Simpson.
 
Did you mean President (William (Bill) Jefferson) Clinton?
 
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I'd say I get the Final Jeopardy answer three or four times a week but I missed this one too. Now that I think about it, Clinton was governor of Arkansas and 1957 was the year Little Rock High School was desegregated. But in the time allowed, I didn't think about these two facts.

The woman who was in third place played it wrong. If the two top people have more than double your money, the thing to do is bet nothing and hope they both bet big and fail. It made no sense for her to also bet everything.
 
Gregg. said:
The woman who was in third place played it wrong. If the two top people have more than double your money, the thing to do is bet nothing and hope they both bet big and fail. It made no sense for her to also bet everything.
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I'll take five-letter words for $400, Alex.

It begins with a G and ends with a D, and was the title of a short-lived Fox game show.
 
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